Clavia just started shipping the Electro 4D 61. I have one here at home :-) just for a few days. )-:
All the organ and piano samples are wonderful. Leslie simulator is good. There's an overdrive with the speaker simulator that adds just the right kind of crunch. There are 128 programs that you can overwrite with your own. In the default factory programs, there's an overdrive B3, an overdrive Vox and an overdrive Farfisa with flanger. All magnificent. There's a pipe / church organ program that's VERY good as well.
All of the 128 programs can have their own unique FX settings. Kinda nice but the default factory programs ALL have too much reverb. (Too wet...dripping in fact.) It took about 30 minutes for me to edit all of the programs to remove or dry up the reverb.
Mellotron strings choir and flute are included in the factory programs and you can load a bunch of other tron / chamberlin sounds from the free Nord sample library. In order to get the mellotron samples to sound right to my ear, I had to boost the top end EQ way up. Other than that, pretty damn good samples I think.
Clay
--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Andy Kinch <kinchmusic@...> wrote:
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> I'd go for the Nord Electro 3, or is it 4 now?
> Great organs and piano, plus you might find a pretty good string synth loaded, or if you are very lucky you might find the rather impressive tron sound library loaded.
> I use mine all the time it's great.
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> Dear all
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> It looks like I'll be playing abroad later this year, without being able to
> take my regular rig (Jupiter-8, Taurus pedals, generic fake Hammond and
> piano). I'm hoping to be able to use my Pro-One (which will fit in a
> suitcase) to fake the Taurus and a mono synth patch I need, but I'll have to
> hire something locally to cover everything else, i.e. overdriven Hammond,
> piano and synth strings. I'm almost entirely ignorant of modern synths, so
> does anyone have any recommendations for something I can ask for? Assuming I
> get any choice, that is :-)
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> Many thanks in advance,
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